Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-11
ANAHEIM.
Interesting Description OF It's
Foundation and Progress.

Interesting Description VI iss
Foundation and Progress.
Major B. Truman, in his third letter
to the New York Times. on the subject
of "Wines in California" gives the fol-
lowing interesting facts relating to
Anaheim:
One of the most interesting places in
Southern California, or, in fact, in the
world that l have visited is Anaheim,
about twenty eight miles from the city
of Los Angeles Wine.making has been,
Island always will be. theleading industry
of Anaheim The light soil has been
proved by nearly thirty years of expert
ence to be we'll adapted for the success.
full growth of the vine. Although Mr..
Wetmore, who is very good authority
generally, believes that the Burger will
not do well in Apaheim, it is well known
that the Mission, Zinfandel, Black NAL
voisie, Mataro, Trousseau and Golden
Chasselas are as successful there as in
any portion of the State. 1t was for the
pursuit of this industry that Anaheim
was first organized about thirty years
ago, and believe its establishment as
colony was one of the first subdivisions
of large tracts of land and Improvement
by water systems in the State.
FOUNDED AS A COLONY.
1t was projected in 1857 by party of
wealthy Germans of San francisco, who
conceived the happy idea of converting
some portion of Los Angeles county into
q collection Of homes and vineyards for
a certain number of the Industrious and
Il ot nnR
formed themselves into an acting body |
with the title of the Los Angeles Coun.
ty Vineyard Association. After mature
deliberation the association resolved to |
employ some competent and proper per-
son to select site and make the neces- |
sary arrangements for the purchase of o |
thousand acres of land somewhere be-
tween the city of Los Angeles and the
sea, with view to water, soil and cll- |
mate. The Surveyor of the county was
selected as superintendent, and was at |
once instructed regarding thu general
order of the original plan OF the pro
jectors, and uncovered with authority |
and furnished with funds to erect vine. |
yard or collection of vineyards-the |
details of the erection of said vineyards |
to be entirely according to his own taste,
inasmuch as they should not fail to cor.
respond, on the whole, with the plan |
proposed and agreed upon by the asso'
citation.
THE ALLoTMENTS.
The site selected Was a part of the |
Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana.
The sup uparintendent engaged himself at
the work he had proposed to perform,
and purchased 100 acres OF land from
Don uan Paci6co Ondiyeras, and di-
vided it into fifty lots of twenty acres
each, reserving portion in the center
for streets and public buildings. Before
the end of the year the plat had assumed
a tangible shape. The entirs site was
fenced with willows, the boundaries OF
the twepty.acre lots were made and
fenced, bitches were constructed, aud
400 acres of vines were planted before
the expiration of the second year.
Eight acres in each lot had been sue
cessfully planted with grapes, leav.
ing the balance Twelve acres) for agri.
cultural purposes, pasture, etc. To-
ward the close of 1859, the superinten.
dent had successfully carried out the
plan of the association at an expense OF
$40, 900. The final action then took
place on the part of the society, which
was to settle some German persons upon
each of the vineyards on the payment of
Sl40O, just one-ffsieth of the aggregate
cost of the whole, the selection of each
vineyard to be made by drawing lots,
each person to receive, in addition to
his vineyard, town lot, leaving four.
teen for public purposes. rwo.thirds of
the entire plat were at once taken up, |
and gradually the whole number was
converted into many little German
homes, constituting a happy and thriv'
ing community.